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This Wednesday (November 20) three impacted communities in the Rio Grande Valley: City of Port Isabel, Laguna Heights, and Long Island Village by the proposed Texas LNG fracked gas project will attend a contested case hearing to challenge the...

The letter was sent in response to Mayor Turner’s attempt to influence the federal permitting process for the controversial fracked gas project. In 2018, Turner sent a letter on behalf of the City of Houston and the Climate Mayors group to the...

In September, we announced that Austin Energy, Austin’s public electric utility, kicked off its process for updating the utility’s Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan (Resource Plan), providing Austinites with an extremely important...

Last month, we raised awareness of the TCEQ’s proposal to the EPA to reduce the Integrated Risk Information System’s (IRIS) risk factor of the carcinogenic air pollutant ethylene oxide (EtO). (A huge thank you to everyone who submitted comments to...

On the sunny Thursday of October 17, a diverse crowd filed intently into the Earle Cabell Federal Court Building in Dallas, Texas. Though they all came from different backgrounds with different stories to tell, they were united over the single...

On October 9 in federal court, counsel for the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund argued against a State of Texas appeal on the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to declare Bexar County, Texas as nonattainment with...

Last week, the San Antonio City Council voted 10-1 in favor of a climate plan intended to drive the City's climate pollution to zero by 2050 and better prepare residents for the acceleration of extreme weather being driven by global warming. The...

It’s been almost a month since Tropical Storm Imelda slammed into Texas. The news cycle may have moved on, but for affected residents, recovery is far from complete.

Want to build a strong base of democracy champions for a clean energy future? Got solid research skills and interest in grassroots organizing? Then we might have the job for you. The Lone Star Chapter is hiring a paid intern to help pilot our...

The climate crisis is an existential threat to all life on Earth. To slow the overheating of the biosphere--driven primarily by fossil fuels--millions of people around the world marched last month to demand rapid and aggressive action from their...